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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Tom Wolfe
#Background
#Clothes
#How
#Never
#Your
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
- Tom Wolfe
#Evening
#Good
#New
#Technology
#Time
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.
- Tom Wolfe
#Face
#Intelligence
#Never
#No Sense
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
- Tom Wolfe
#Anything
#Art
#Game
#Long
#Romantic
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.
- Tom Wolfe
#About
#Complain
#People
#Point
#Way
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.
- Tom Wolfe
#Drunk
#Lie
#Man
#Not Interested
#People
I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?'
- Tom Wolfe
#Angel
#Attitude
#Home
#Me
#Time
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.
- Tom Wolfe
#Back
#Blood
#Me
#Never
#Writing
So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.
- Tom Wolfe
#America
#Country
#Loyalty
#Once
#People
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
- Tom Wolfe
#Ability
#Car
#Fast
#Man
#Simple
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
- Tom Wolfe
#American
#Great
#History
#Me
#Seeing
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
- Tom Wolfe
#Ahead
#American
#Government
#People
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
- Tom Wolfe
#Destiny
#Famous
#Man
#Men
#Time
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
- Tom Wolfe
#Amazing
#Attitude
#Change
#Freedom
#Time
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.
- Tom Wolfe
#Information
#Know
#People
#Want
#World
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
- Tom Wolfe
#Before
#Difference
#Make
#Now
#Want
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
- Tom Wolfe
#Believe
#Half
#Important
#Literature
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
- Tom Wolfe
#Four
#Others
#Street
#Three
#Universe
The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
- Tom Wolfe
#American
#Mouth
#New
#Time
#Words
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
- Tom Wolfe
#Cure
#Loneliness
#Surest
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
- Tom Wolfe
#Life
#Loneliness
#Men
#My Life
#Myself
A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe
#Cult
#Political
#Power
#Religion
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
- Tom Wolfe
#Chic
#Heart
#Society
#Style
#Traditions
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
- Tom Wolfe
#Beautiful Woman
#Beautiful
#Cooking
#She
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
- Tom Wolfe
#Melting Pot
#Miami
#Pot
#Stones
#Which
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
- Tom Wolfe
#Expression
#Live
#Love Is
#Love
#Will
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
- Tom Wolfe
#Communication
#Joy
#People
#Quality
#Spirit
#Who
It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a writer, even though I couldn't even read. It was mainly because I thought of my father as a writer.
- Tom Wolfe
#Age
#Father
#Know
#Time
#Want
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
- Tom Wolfe
#Arrested
#Been
#Conservative
#Liberal
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